, 2006-01-04
A few hundred million Windows XP machines lay vulnerable on the Web today, a week after a zero-day exploit was discovered. Meanwhile, new approaches and ideas from the academic world - that focus exclusively on children - may give us hope for the future after all.
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Zero-day holiday
2006-01-04
Anonymous (2 replies)
Anonymous (2 replies)
Not a real solution
2006-01-05
Mike Warot (1 replies)
Mike Warot (1 replies)
As if there is some sort of morality in the action of hackers, script kiddies and the like.
One day, some curious researcher will fiddle with these systems, find a vulnerability and post the details, maybe with exploit code. It may even appear on stuff like metasploit, allegedly for "research purposes". From there, the step to abuse that information is short, very short. For whatever reason the evil guys have in mind.
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